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Mini Peanut Butter Chocolate Banana Muffins

2/19/19

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Peanut Butter Chocolate Banana Muffins make the perfect breakfast, lunchbox treat, or after-school snack. Enjoy the sweet trifecta of bananas, peanut butter, and chocolate can be a healthy treat. This mini muffin recipe is gluten-free, uses no refined sugar, and is great for meal prep.

You’ll be happy to have these peanut butter chocolate banana mini muffins on hand. They are one of my favorite healthy gluten free snacks.

You guys, this mini muffins recipe led to one of my worst moments of the school year so far. We went to see Little Dude’s classroom the week before he started school, and his teacher told me that their classroom was going to be peanut-free due to a kid with a peanut allergy.

Knowing what I do about peanut allergies, and knowing that I make a lot of the kids’ lunchbox snacks, I asked a million questions. Are homemade foods allowed, do snacks have to be packaged, or can we only share things like fresh fruit?

That kid can’t have foods manufactured in a facility that handles peanuts, but what about my kid so long as the item doesn’t actually contain peanuts itself? Are other tree nuts okay?

Then the second day of school I was posting the picture of The Bug’s lunchbox on Instagram when I realized – I sent one of these peanut butter chocolate banana muffins with Little Dude. To say that I freaked out is an understatement.

I immediately called the school to let them know. I felt horrible. Plus, I didn’t know if they had to take the muffin away from Little Dude. They had to make sure they cleaned him and the table really well as if these teachers with a room full of two and a half-year-olds don’t have enough to do. What if Little Dude was sitting next to the kid? And what if Little Dude already touched something else? How about if the kid was fine now but had a delayed reaction?

I literally could not function for most of the afternoon because I had all of these thoughts running through my head. It was a total mistake. I spent last school year packing nearly the same lunch for both kids and not even thinking about it. So I went into autopilot mode and just figured I was packing him chocolate banana muffins, not thinking about the rest of the ingredients.

With as worried as I was, I can’t even imagine how parents of kids with life-threatening allergies must feel. They have to worry about dopes like me. So to this kids’ parents and all allergy parents out there, well you probably aren’t reading this, but if you are, I’m sooooo sorry! You can be sure this one mistake rocked me to the core.

And I’ll just be keeping these peanut butter chocolate banana muffins at home from now on, which is totally okay with me!

Flourless Funky Monkey Oatmeal Mini Muffins

The combination of banana, chocolate, and peanut butter is always a hit in my house. I’ve pretty much put these three ingredients in just about everything. We definitely have no problem devouring these Flourless Oatmeal Peanut Butter Banana Chocolate Chip Mini Muffins safely at home.

What do you need to make gluten free banana mini muffins?

INGREDIENTS

banana

peanut butter

maple syrup

vanilla extract

egg

salt

baking soda

baking powder

oat flour – can use oats ground to a powder in your blender

old-fashioned oats

mini chocolate chips

TOOLS

Hand mixer

Mixing bowl

Nonstick mini muffin pan – a good one like this one from Wilton is critical. For these types of muffins, I typically don’t like to use paper liners. I feel like too much of the muffin sticks to the liner. However, if you use a good mini muffin tin, you’ll be fine.

How do you make peanut butter chocolate banana muffins?

If you don’t have oat flour, simply toss some oats in a blender and pulse until you have flour.

Then, beat together the wet ingredients, including the banana, peanut butter, maple syrup, and vanilla extract, then add the egg.

Next, fold in the dry ingredients.

You’ll then stir in the old fashioned oats and mini chocolate chips.

Divide the batter in the mini muffin pan and bake until golden brown

Finally, cool in the pans for several minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.

Can you freeze these banana muffins?

These mini muffins freeze very well. If wrapped well with plastic wrap or in an airtight freezer bag, they will stay good for a couple of months. You can put them into the fridge the night before you want to pack them into lunch boxes or serve them.

Are peanut butter chocolate banana muffins gluten free?

If you need a gluten free treat, it doesn’t get much easier than making these with certified gluten-free oats. If that doesn’t matter to you, then use any oats you have on hand and know that you are making a healthy snack packed with whole grains.

Mini Peanut Butter Chocolate Banana Muffins

We love these oatmeal mini muffins as a healthy gluten free breakfast or snack. They only need a little maple syrup to enhance the sweetness of the bananas. Additionally, the peanut butter adds protein. Plus, when you use mini chips, you only need a few to have tons of little chocolaty bits in every bite.

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Comments

Hi Vivian, You can try substituting 1/3 cup of unsweetened applesauce for the banana, because like bananas, applesauce is also a great fat substitute. The only thing I’m concerned about is that the batter may be too thin. If it seems too runny, add in an extra tablespoon of oat flour. Please let me know how they turn out for you!

Oh gosh I feel like that would totally happen to me-I have such a problem with going on autopilot. Fingers crossed that when James goes to school there are no nut allergy issues, gahhh. Esp because uh yeah love pb and so does he! So we’d all be about these muffins!

It’s so common now, which is so crazy. Every school handles it differently though. Now in elementary school I can send in anything, but we’ve talked a lot about being careful and aware of their friends. But you can definitely enjoy these muffins at home!!